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BAYLOR
at
UT-ARLINGTON

6:00 p.m. CST
Feb. 19, 2003
Allan Saxe Field
Arlington, Texas

Baylor plays its 10th consecutive game away from home Wednesday, traveling to Arlington, Texas, for a 6 p.m. CST game against Texas-Arlington at Allan Saxe Field. The Lady Bears (9-6) were listed among teams also receiving votes for the USA Today/NFCA Preseason Top 25, the most recent poll. Baylor went 2-1 at last weekend's Mardi Gras Classic in Monroe, La., defeating Mercer and Louisiana Tech and falling to host Louisiana-Monroe. UTA (4-7) has not played since losing both ends of a doubleheader at No. 12 Texas last Wednesday. The Lady Mavs were shutout in both games, losing 7-0 and 1-0.

QUICK NOTES
* This is the 69th meeting between Baylor and Texas-Arlington. The Lady Bears lead the all-time series 42-25-1; however, UTA leads 14-11-1 in games played at Arlington.
* The Lady Bears are 51-12 in the month of February over the past three seasons.
* Freshman OF/1B Kelly Osburn has drawn a team-best 18 walks this season, nearly half of Baylor's 38 walks as a team. Osburn is already sixth on Baylor's all-time single-season walks list .
* Freshman OF/SS Harmony Schwethelm has hit safely in nine of the 10 games in which she has registered a plate appearance.
* Baylor has won 32 consecutive games when scoring at least four runs.
* Baylor is 23-2 over the past two seasons when collecting at least eight hits.
* Baylor is 43-6 over the past two seasons when out-hitting its opponent.

HEAD COACH GLENN MOORE
Glenn Moore is in his third season as head coach at Baylor, coming to Waco after a stellar three-year tenure at Louisiana State. In his first season at Baylor, Moore led the Lady Bears to a 38-22 overall record and a sixth-place, 7-9 mark in the Big 12 Conference. Last season, he guided the Lady Bears to even greater successes with more than 50 team and individual, single-game and single-season school records. Baylor finished 46-18 overall and 10-8 in the Big 12 Conference, establishing school marks for victories in a season, conference victories in a season and highest conference finish (fourth). Moore also led Baylor to a national ranking for the second straight season and two wins over top 10 teams, as many top-10 victories as the Lady Bears had amassed in the previous 16 seasons of the program's existence. Moore has a career record of 232-88 (.725); he posted a 22-17 mark in his first year as a collegiate head coach at William Carey in Mississippi. Moore is 210-69 (.753) at the Division I level.

BAYLOR vs. TEXAS-ARLINGTON
Baylor is 42-25-1 all-time against Texas-Arlington, including two wins this year at the season-opening Getterman Classic. The Lady Bears have won seven straight against the Lady Mavs and nine of 10 under head coach Glenn Moore. UTA leads the series 14-11-1 in games played at Arlington. This is Baylor's first game against the Lady Mavs at Arlington since splitting a doubleheader 2-0 and 3-11 during the 2001 season.

TEXAS-ARLINGTON LADY MAVS
Texas-Arlington (4-7) is in its seventh season with Debbie Nichols-Hedrick at the helm. Nichols-Hedrick, a former all-America pitcher at Louisiana Tech, is 135-176-1 during her career, all coming at UTA.

UTA Notes: The Lady Mavs finished third at the Getterman Classic earlier this month with a 2-4 record. Since that time, UTA has posted a 2-3 mark. ... The Lady Mavs hit .200 as a team with two home runs and 14 stolen bases in 18 attempts. UTA has a team fielding percentage of .977, committing just seven errors in 11 games. ... Freshman IF Jenna Fortune (.304-1-2) and freshman OF/C Beverly Rowan (.258-1-6) lead UTA offensively. ... UTA has a staff ERA of 1.90 with three shutouts, eight complete games and a .233 opponents' batting average. ... Junior RHP Katie Cox (3-3, 1.70) and freshman LHP Jill Garro (1-4, 2.17) have pitched all but 4.0 of UTA's 70.0 innings. Cox has 41 strikeouts in 37.0 innings of work, and she is responsible for the Lady Mavs lone complete-game shutout. ... Fortune prepped at Keller (Texas) HS along with 2002 Baylor softball signee Chelsi Lake and 2002 Baylor volleyball player Alison Heffner.

LAST MEETING ... BAYLOR 2, UT-ARLINGTON 1 - FEB. 2
A sacrifice fly and three wild pitches gave Baylor a 2-1 victory over Texas-Arlington in the final game of the Getterman Classic. Falon Kwasnick led of the bottom of the first for UTA, playing as the home team, with a double to left. After a sacrifice bunt pushed her to third, Kwasnick raced home on a wild pitch. That lead held for the Lady Mavs until the sixth when Sarah Caudle led off with a single up the middle and moved to second on a wild pitch. A Danelle Arnold sacrifice bunt advanced Caudle to third, and Amber Daniel scored her with a sacrifice fly to left-center. Katie Decker started for Baylor and allowed one run on four hits with three walks and a strikeout. Cristin Vitek entered the game with two outs and runners on second and third in the sixth. She recorded the next four outs in order to close the game.

LAST TIME OUT ... LOUISIANA-MONROE 5, BAYLOR 2 - FEB. 16
Baylor fell behind early and could never rally to take the lead, falling to Louisiana-Monroe 5-2 in the final game of the Mardi Gras Classic. Casey Goodman put the Lady Indians on the board with a two-run, two-out home run to left. ULM added another run in the bottom of the second thanks on a Leslie Venissat two-out RBI single. The Lady Bears pulled to within one run thanks to a two-run third. After a Sarah Caudle run-scoring fielder's choice, Kelly Osburn scored by way of a ULM throwing error. Baylor had a golden opportunity to take the lead in the fifth, but the Lady Bears could push a run home with the bases loaded and one out. That proved costly as the Lady Indians scored two more runs in the bottom of the inning to put the game away. Cristin Vitek went the distance for Baylor against Louisiana-Monroe. She was touched for five runs on eight hits with an uncharacteristic four walks and only two strikeouts.

WALK THIS WAY
Freshman OF/1B Kelly Osburn has made quite an impression in her first two weeks as a collegiate athlete. She is second among regular starters with a .440 batting average and eight RBI. Osburn also leads the team in stolen bases (8) and is tied for the team lead with two homers. However, most eye-catching is her walk total, which is already at 18. Osburn has nearly half of Baylor's 38 walks as a team and three times as many as second-place walker Danelle Arnold (6). A Missouri City, Texas, native, Osburn already ranks sixth all-time at Baylor for walks in a season, and her per-game average is 1.20.

SCHWETHELM ASLO STARTING FAST
OF/SS Harmony Schwethelm is also enjoying a fast start to her collegiate career. The San Antonio, Texas, native leads the Lady Bears with a .458 batting average, and she has hit safely in nine of the 10 games in which she has made at least one plate appearance. Schwethelm is second on the team in stolen bases with six swipes in seven tries.

LADY BEARS TABBED FOURTH BY BIG 12 COACHES
Along with receiving one first-place vote Baylor was tabbed, along with Texas A&M, to finish fourth in the Big 12 Conference preseason coaches' poll. The Lady Bears and the Aggies, who did not receive a first-place nod, both received 54 total points. Nebraska was the coaches' preseason favorite; the Huskers received five of nine first-place votes and 77 total points. Texas and Oklahoma received two first-place votes each. The Longhorns were picked to finish second with 70 points, while the Sooners were tabbed third with 67 points. Oklahoma State (44 points), Kansas (32), Iowa State (21), Missouri (19) and Texas Tech (12) rounded out the 10-team poll.

HOME, SWEET HOME
Baylor posted a 25-6 record at home last season, establishing a school record for home wins in a season. The Lady Bears also enjoyed a school-record 24-game home winning streak that dated back to 2001 season. In three years under head coach Glenn Moore, Baylor is 46-12 (.793) at Getterman Stadium. The Lady Bears are 60-25 (.706) in the stadium's five-year existence.

GETTERMAN ATTENDANCE CONTINUES TO GROW
In 23 home dates, Getterman Stadium attracted 9,248 fans last season. That is a Getterman record, shattering the 2001 total of 5,556. The per-game average of 402 also topped the 2001 record of 370. Six of the eight largest crowds and eight of the 10 largest crowds in the stadium's four-year history came last season. Baylor finished 13th nationally in total attendance for 2002 and 20th nationally in per-game attendance.

BAYLOR JUST OUT OF NFCA TOP 25
Baylor just missed a preseason ranking as the USA Today/NFCA Coaches Preseason Top 25 was released Wednesday by the sport's governing body. Baylor was the second team among those also receiving votes, just eight points behind No. 25 Massachusetts. UCLA received 18 of 22 first-place votes and was the coaches' pick as the preseason favorite. Fellow Pac-10 powers Arizona and defending national champion California follow in that order with the Wildcats and the Golden Bears earning two first-place nods each. Nebraska and Michigan tied for the fourth spot. Washington, Louisiana State, Oklahoma, Florida State and Cal State Fullerton rounded out the top 10 in that order. Baylor faces five of the top 12 teams this season. Along with Big 12 foes Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas, the Lady Bears face seventh-ranked Louisiana State and 11th-ranked DePaul.

BAYLOR ADDS 4 EARLY SIGNEES
Head coach Glenn Moore signed four high school athletes and one junior college transfer to National Letters of Intent here Wednesday, the first day of the 2002 fall signing period. Kylie Conroy (Carrollton-Creekview [Texas] HS), Lisa Ferguson (Fort Worth-Pascal [Texas] HS), Chelsi Lake (Keller [Texas] HS), Melissa Maler (Temple College/West [Texas] HS) and Erin Sheek (Deer Park [Texas] HS) will join the Lady Bears next fall.

TRANSFERS FIND HOME AT BAYLOR
Four members of the 2002 Lady Bears' squad transferred to Baylor from other schools, three coming in this season and all three from four-year schools. In 2001, Kourtny Westerfeld joined the Baylor program after spending one season at nearby McLennan Community College. Last year, the Lady Bears welcome sophomores Danelle Arnold and Katie Decker from fellow Big 12 Conference institution Nebraska, and sophomore Kelly Levesque from Southeastern Conference power Louisiana State. This season, Amber Daniel joins the Baylor program after two all-America seasons at Temple [Texas] College.

BAYLORBEARS.COM
Baylor's official athletic web site can be found at www.BAYLORBEARS.com. The comprehensive site, which includes releases, photos, biographical sketches and audio broadcasts, is part of the Official Colles Sports Network. OCSN currently hosts sites for more than 100 universities, including eight Big 12 schools.

INSIDE BAYLOR SPORTS TV SHOW
Inside Baylor Sports, a half-hour look at the world of Baylor athletics, airs weekly throughout Central Texas and the region. The program, co-hosted by John Morris and Lori Scott-Fogleman, airs on KCEN-TV Channel 6, Fox Sports Net Southwest and the College Channel (Waco cable channel 18). KCEN carries the show at 10:30 p.m. Sundays, and it airs at 1 p.m. Wednesdays on FSN Southwest.

BAYLOR SOFTBALL RADIO NETWORK
The Baylor radio crew will again this season provide live play-by-play broadcast for selected Baylor softball games. John Morris handles play-by-play duties for home games,while Larry Little, Baylor's media relations contact for softball, handles play-by-play duties for road games. Former Baylor softball standout Kristen Lancaster joins the softball radio crew this season and will provide color analysis for all games. All Baylor games can be heard on flagship station KRZI-AM 1660/1580AM in Waco. Every Baylor game is also available worldwide on the internet at www.BaylorBears.com and Yahoo!Broadcast.com.

2003 Radio ScheduleMarch  26   at Texas        6:30 p.m.March  29   at Oklahoma     NoonApril   2   Texas A&M       6:30 p.m.April   5   Nebraska        2:00 p.m.April  16   Texas           6:30 p.m.April  24   at Texas A&M        6:30 p.m.May   1-4   Big 12 Tournament   TBAMay 14-18   NCAA Regionals      TBAMay 21-26   College World Series    TBA

UP NEXT...
After playing 10 consecutive games away from Getterman Stadium, Baylor hosts Louisiana Tech, Tulsa and UAB for the Compass Bank Invitational over the weekend. Action in the three-day, double round-robin tournament begins Friday at 11 a.m. All four teams play two games each day.